A mum-of-two who ‘stamped’ on the head of a defenceless man lying on the floor has been jailed.

Tasmin Riley, of Beech Street, Accrington, repeatedly stamped and kicked victim David Howard outside Baggies Wine Bar in Great Harwood after he had been attacked by an unknown group of men.

Burnley Crown Court heard Riley was ‘very angry at the time of the incident’ and had been ‘drinking everything she could get her hands on, including shots and pints of lager and had also taken some cocaine’.

Mr Parker said Riley then joined in and stamped on his head and upper body and later returned and kicked him again to the body.

The prosecutor said the witness, who tried to intervene and break-up the attack, was left ‘very upset’ by the incident and was ‘disgusted to watch people there kicking a man on the floor’.

Mr Parker said Mr Howard got up a few moments later and went to Great Harwood police station to report the attack, but it was closed.

Mr Howard suffered bruising and swelling to an eye, lacerations to his face and bruises to his back and ribs, however he didn’t go to hospital.

The court heard how when Riley was later arrested and interviewed by police she told them she was ‘in a bad way at the time’, had been out with friends and had drank a lot of alcohol and taken some cocaine.

Mr Parker said she was ‘very angry’ and claimed Mr Howard had grabbed her arm on the way out of the wine bar.

She said she had ‘lost her temper’ but there was ‘no valid reason whatsoever to do what she’d done’.